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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the family decides to leave?
(a) It finally stops raining.
(b) Norman offers to bring them back tomorrow.
(c) Jessie decides that she wants to stay.
(d) Norman and Paul have to push the truck out of the mud.

2. What does Norman do after he takes Paul and his girlfriend back to Paul's house?
(a) He fixes a pot of coffee.
(b) He goes out to get food to fix breakfast for all of them
(c) He berates Paul for bad behavior.
(d) He goes to his own home.

3. What is notable about Old Rawhide's derriere?
(a) She has a huge bruise.
(b) She is in great shape.
(c) She has a tattoo on it.
(d) She has a big birthmark.

4. What do the brothers always wonder about each other?
(a) Which one is smarter
(b) Which one has more money
(c) Which one is tougher
(d) Which one is more handsome

5. Why do Norman and Paul get a late start the next morning?
(a) Mr. Maclean cannot find his fishing gear.
(b) They were reading the Sunday paper.
(c) They slept in.
(d) Mrs. Maclean fixes a huge breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Norman and Paul's father is as passionate about _____________________ as he is about religion.

2. How is Old Rawhide dressed when Norman and Paul drop her off in town?

3. What do the brothers and their father do at the end of the day?

4. How does Norman think that Jessie and her family will react to Neal's condition?

5. How do Norman and Mr. Maclean react after the tragedy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Norman and Paul escape from Norman's family problems a few days later?

2. What do Norman and Paul receive in the form of sermons from their father?

3. What is the occupation of Norman and Paul's father?

4. On what is the story based?

5. Why does Norman not remain to fish with Neal?

6. Who arrives to surprise Norman and Paul at the cabin?

7. How does Norman react to Neal's arrival a few days later?

8. Where do the two brothers go fishing?

9. Neal declares that he wants to fish but what does he do instead?

10. What do Norman's wife and mother-in-law finally realize about Neal?

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